Preliminary Programme

Showing: World History (all days)
Tue 26 February
    14.15
    16.30

Wed 27 February
    8.30
    10.45
    14.15
    16.30

Thu 28 February
    8.30
    10.45
    14.15
    16.30

Fri 29 February
    8.30
    10.45
    14.15
    16.30

Sat 1 March
    8.30
    10.45
    14.15
    16.30

All days
Tuesday 26 February 2008 14.15
M-1 WOR01 World Regions in Transnational Perspective
Room 5.2
Network: World History Chair: Katja Naumann
Organizers: - Discussant: Katja Naumann
Jan-Frederik Abbeloos : Whose multinational? The relationship between British and Belgian national interests in the Union Minière du Haut-Katanga (1906-1925).
Maria Hidvegi : Marketing strategies and economic nationalism in the interwar years
Sarah Lemmen : Czechs in the world: National representations and global encounters, 1890-1938
Mathias Mesenhoeller : Poland and the Polish Diaspora Communities in the 20th century



Tuesday 26 February 2008 16.30
D-2 WOR07 Gender History in Transnational Perspectiv (roundtable)
Cave D
Networks: Women and Gender , World History Chair: Judith P. Zinsser
Organizers: - Discussant: Judith P. Zinsser
Ann Allen : "Lost in Translation? Gender History in National and Transnational Perspective."
Swapna Banerjee : The Father and the Child : Fatherhood as a Vector of Masculinity in Colonial India
Anne Cova : "Women and Associativism in France, Italy, and Portugal, 1900-1945"
Jennifer Morris : Father to the World's Children: The United Nations Children's Fund



Wednesday 27 February 2008 16.30
H-6 MAT14 Material culture and modernization
Room 1.1
Networks: Material and Consumer Culture , World History Chair: Brigitte Le Normand
Organizers: - Discussant: Lewis Siegelbaum
Natalya Chernyshova : ‘Even the Most Backward Segments of Society Have Put on Jeans’: Consumption and Social Status under Late Soviet Socialism, 1964-1985
Emília Marques : Material culture and social conflict: distinction and counter-distinction in the Portuguese “Carnations Revolution” (1974)
Tibor Valuch : The power of consumption - The changing of fashionable clothing in Hungary in the second half of the 20th century



Thursday 28 February 2008 8.30
E-7 THE03 Critical Historiography of International History I
Cave E
Networks: Theory , World History Chair: Oliver Daddow
Organizers: - Discussant: Oliver Daddow
Mario Del Pero : Between Long Peaces and Cold Wars. The Historiography of John Lewis Gaddis
Patrick Finney : Hayden White and the Tragedy of International History
Stephan Petzold : The origins of the First World War as a discursive puzzle
Dominic Sachsenmaier : Challenges to International History



Thursday 28 February 2008 10.45
E-8 WOR04 Critical Historiography of International History II
Cave E
Networks: Theory , World History Chair: David Lindenfeld
Organizers: - Discussant: David Lindenfeld
Cedric Beidatsch : The Political Praxis of Immanuel Wallerstein. A Case Study in Marx’s Eleventh Thesis on Feuerbach.
Ingo Heidbrink : Inter- and multidisciplinary approaches to maritime history
Christopher Lloyd : Global Wars of Capitalism Since the 16th Century and the "End of World History": Historical Stages, Progressive Teleologies, and Social Transformations Revisited



Thursday 28 February 2008 16.30
S-10 NMWOR Network meeting: World History
Instituto de Arte
Network: World History Chairs: -
Organizers: - Discussants: -



Friday 29 February 2008 8.30
V-11 WOR02 Transnational Networks and the European Communitiy
Room 2.10
Network: World History Chair: Stefan Berger
Organizer: Thomas Fetzer Discussants: Thomas Fetzer, Leonard Ray
Magali Deleuze : Canadian Public Opinion and European post wars decolonization (1950-1960)
Brigitte Leucht, Katja Seidel : Transnational competition policy networks in European Union history, 1945-1970
Steffi Marung : A Hybrid Border. The EU Border Regime After Enlargement and the Neighbourhood Programme Poland-Belarus Ukraine 2004-2006
Jan-Henrik Meyer : "Fake Eurocrats without the wages" – Brussels correspondents' transnational networks



Friday 29 February 2008 10.45
V-12 WOR03 Sugar, Coffee and International Affairs
Room 2.10
Networks: Rural , World History Chair: Corinne A. Pernet
Organizers: - Discussant: Beverly Lemire
Christiane Berth : Transnational networks in coffee trade between Germany and Guatemala
Kathleen Mapes : "'Barbarian' or 'Civilized' Sugar?: The Politics of Imperialism, 1898-1909
Jim Norris : World Affairs, Migrant Workers, and Sugar Production in the United States
Dorothee Wierling : Phantasies of the „Origin“. The imagery of the coffee bean and the Hamburg coffee merchants.



Saturday 1 March 2008 8.30
U-15 WOR08 Religious Globalization? The role of Proselytizers and Indigenous Peoples
Room10.2
Networks: Religion , World History Chair: David Maxwell
Organizers: - Discussant: David Maxwell
Elena Glavatskaya : Christian Mission beyond the Polar Circle
Joseph Levi : Islam in Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique
David Lindenfeld : The Sioux and the Maori: Contrasting Adaptions of Christianity as Strategies for Ethnic Survival
Michelle Molina : Evangelization and Individualization:Jesuit Itinerant Missions in Seventeenth-Century New Spain



Saturday 1 March 2008 14.15
F-17 WOR05 Trans-European Perspectives on the 18th century
Sala Leite de Vasconcelos
Network: World History Chair: Harriet Zurndorfer
Organizers: - Discussants: Kenneth Pomeranz, Harriet Zurndorfer
Anne Kuhlmann-Smirnov : Networks of Early Modern African Migration to Northwest-Germany and Europe
Katja Naumann, Matthias Middel : Integrating the 18th century into the history of globalization
Alessandro Stanziani : Labour as service in 18th and 19th century. A Russia-Europe comparison.


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